Ball State University will hold a public hearing concerning its proposed tuition and mandatory fee rate increases on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at 11 a.m. in the Forum Room of the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.

Seven Ball State students are participating in the 2011 500 Festival Princess Program as part of the festivities leading up to "Greatest Spectacle in Racing." As princesses, the students act as goodwill ambassadors for communities statewide, volunteering for schools and other nonprofit organizations.

New signs designed by Ball State students for the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo's Australia Adventure exhibit are the latest result from a series of immersive learning collaborations between the university and the zoo.

Ball State University will begin a traffic/pedestrian safety improvement project on May 9 at McKinley and Riverside avenues, encompassing the Scramble Light. Improvements will extend about 150 feet to the north, east and west and will reach to University Avenue to the south. The project will be completed by Aug. 6.

Abigail Shemoel, '11, is named a national finalist for the Frederick Law Olmsted Scholarship presented annually by the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She becomes one of just two undergraduate students in history to earn the honor. Earlier in the year, she was named one of Ball State's first two finalists for a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.